Household-tool.



No.857, 320. I PATENTED JUNE18,1907.

' G. ULETT.

HOUSEHOLD TOOL. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1906.

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GEORGE ULETT, OF WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOUSEHOLD-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1907.

A h ti fil d March 19, 1906. Serial No. 306,766. I

To all whom itmlay concern:-

Be it known that I, GEORGE ULETT, a citizen of the United States,residing in Waltham, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improvement in Household-Tools, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel householdtool adapted for lifting from milk-jars, cans or bottles the usual papersealing disk.

Figure 1 in perspective shows a household tool embodying my invention inone good form; Fig. 2 shows the top of a milk-jar with the prong thrustthrough the disk; Fi 3 shows the tool turned one fourth around to causethe prong to contact with the under side of thedisk; Fig. 4 is a sectionon the line ale-m; and Fig. 5 is a section of Fig. 3 in the line ccac.

Referring to the drawing, A represents a handle suitably bored toreceive the tang of a metallic bar B, the outer end of which is made toproject laterally from the side of the bar to form a point B that issharpened. The blade is shown as curved at its edge that bears on thetop of the jar D as the tool is turned one-fourth around, as will bedescribed.

In using the tool, it will be so held in the hand that the point B willbe directed downwardly and this point is thrust through the paper diskC, as represented in Figs. 2 and 4, until the flat side of the bladecontacts with the upper end of the jar D. This done,

the handle and blade are turned from the positions, Figs. 2 and 4, intothe positions Figs. 3 and 5, where it will be seen that one edge of thepoint B is brought upwardly in contact with the under side of the cap,as

bestshown in Fig. 5, when the tool will be lifted, taking the cap withit from the mouth,

of the jar. The cap, when crowded into the jar to seal the same issustained on the shoulder (1.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is Ina tool for household use, ahandle, aconnected flat blade having its outer end bent at a substantial rightangle from said blade and pointed to be thrust through a paper sealingdisk, the penetration of said point being arrested by the blade strikingthe top of the jar containing said sealing disk, the subsequent rotationof said blade while resting on the top of the jar causing the side ofthe pointed end to be brought upwardly to contact with the under side ofsaid sealing disk that the same may be lifted positively from the mouthof the jar.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE ULETT.

Witnesses:

GEo. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. DUNN.

